Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8588
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"African ostrich [gizzard]"
Date
1812
Creator
William Clift (1775 - 1849, British) , Illustrator
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 275mm
width (painting): 191mm
width (painting): 191mm
Subject
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Description
Plate 16, from the paper "On the different structures and situations of the solvent glands in the digestive organs of birds, according to the nature of their food and particular modes of life", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.102 (1812), pp.394-404. External view of the cardiac cavity and gizzard of the African ostrich, one-sixth scale. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details and upper right "African Ostrich." Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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